About the Journal

Focus and Scope

Jurnal Keperawatan Indonesia (JKI, or Nursing Journal of Indonesia) contributes to the dissemination of information related to nursing research and evidence-based study on urban nursing issues in low-middle income countries. The scope of this journal is broadly multi-perspective in nursing areas such as Nursing Education, Clinical Practice, Community Health Care, Management and Health System, Health Informatics, and Transcultural Nursing, with a focus on urban nursing issues in low-middle income countries. JKI is committed to communicating and being open to the discussion of ideas, facts, and issues related to health across a wide range of disciplines.

The journal accepts original research articles, synthesized literature, and best practice reports or case reports that use the quantitative, qualitative, or mixed-method approach. JKI adheres to journalistic standards that require transparency of real and potential conflicts of interest that authors and editors may have. It follows publishing standards set by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME), and the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

Letters and commentaries about our published articles are welcome. All submitted contributions will undergo a blind peer-review process according to appropriate criteria.

Peer Review Process

All manuscripts submitted to Jurnal Keperawatan Indonesia (JKI, or Nursing Journal of Indonesia) must be original work that has never been published elsewhere. A submitted manuscript that is found to contain double submission will be rejected. The submitted manuscript must fulfill scientific merit or novelty appropriate to this journal scope and follow Focus and Scope and Author Guidelines of the journal.

The submitted manuscript will be peer-reviewed by at least two or more reviewers with a double-blind review process. Reviewers provide scientific comments to improve the contents of the manuscript. Occasionally, a third peer-reviewer was required to provide critical comments on submitted manuscripts. The final decision of manuscript acceptance is based on the final review of the Editor by considering the reviewers’ comments.

The journal uses plagiarism tools (Turnitin and i-Thenticate) to ensure the integrity of all submitted manuscripts. English language and copyediting services can be provided by Enago Editing Services for the article that will be published in this journal.

Publication Frequency

The Journal is published quarterly (March, July, November).

Open Access Policy

This journal is an open access journal which provides immediate, worldwide, barrier-free access to the full text of all published articles without charging readers or their institutions for access. Readers have the right to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of all articles in Jurnal Keperawatan Indonesia.

Policy of Screening for Plagiarism

Papers submitted to Jurnal Keperawatan Indonesia (JKI, or Nursing Journal of Indonesia) will be screened for plagiarism using iThenticate and Turnitin plagiarism detection tools. JKI will immediately reject papers containing plagiarism or self-plagiarism.

Before articles are submitted to reviewers, they are first checked for similarity/plagiarism by a member of the editorial team. Papers submitted to JKI must have a similarity level of less than 20%.

Plagiarism is the exposure of another person’s thoughts or words as though they were your own, without permission, credit, or acknowledgment, or by failing to cite the sources properly. Plagiarism can take diverse forms, from literal copying to paraphrasing the work of another. In order to properly judge whether an author has plagiarized, we emphasize the following possible situations:

Literal copying – An author copies another author’s work word for word, in whole or in part, without permission and without acknowledging or citing the original source. This practice can be identified by comparing the original source and the manuscript/work suspected to be plagiarized.
Substantial copying – An author reproduces a substantial part of another author’s work, without permission and without acknowledging or citing the original source. The term ‘substantial’ can be understood both in terms of quality and quantity, being often used in the context of intellectual property. ‘Quality’ refers to the relative value of the copied text in comparison to the work as a whole.
Paraphrasing – An author takes ideas, words, or phrases from a source and crafts them into new sentences within their own writing. This practice becomes unethical when the author does not properly cite or does not acknowledge the original work/author. This form of plagiarism is the more difficult form to be identified.

Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement

Jurnal Keperawatan Indonesia (JKI, or Nursing Journal of Indonesia) is a peer-reviewed international journal. This statement clarifies the ethical behavior of all parties involved in the act of publishing an article in this journal, explains what is meant by research misconduct, and outlines the roles and duties of the author, the chief editor, the Editorial Board, the peer reviewer and the publisher (Universitas Indonesia). The journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). This statement is based on COPE’s Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors.

Ethical Guidelines for Journal Publication

The publication of an article in a peer-reviewed journal such as JKI is an essential building block in the development of a coherent and respected network of knowledge. It is a direct reflection of the quality of the work of the authors and the institutions that support them. Peer-reviewed articles support and embody the scientific method. It is, therefore, important to agree upon standards of expected ethical behavior for all parties involved in the act of publishing: the author, the journal editor, the peer reviewer, the publisher, and the society.

The Universitas Indonesia as the publisher of JKI, takes its duties of guardianship over all stages of publishing extremely seriously, and we recognize our ethical and other responsibilities. We are committed to ensuring that advertising, reprinting, or other commercial revenues have no impact or influence on editorial decisions. In addition, the Faculty of Nursing, Universitas Indonesia, and the Editorial Board will assist in communications with other journals and/or publishers where this is useful and necessary.

Research Misconduct

Research misconduct means fabrication, falsification, citation manipulation, or plagiarism in producing, performing, or reviewing research and writing an article, or in reporting research results. When authors are found to have been involved in research misconduct or other serious irregularities involving articles that have been published in scientific journals, editors have a responsibility to ensure the accuracy and integrity of the scientific record.

In cases of suspected misconduct, the editors and Editorial Board will use the best practices of COPE to assist them in resolving the complaint and addressing the misconduct fairly. This will include an investigation of the allegation by the editors. A submitted manuscript that is found to contain such misconduct will be rejected. In cases where a published paper is found to contain such misconduct, a retraction can be published and will be linked to the original article.

The first step of the process involves determining the validity of the allegation and assessing whether the allegation is consistent with the definition of research misconduct. This initial step also involves determining whether the individuals alleging misconduct have relevant conflicts of interest.

If scientific misconduct or the presence of other substantial research irregularities is a possibility, the allegations are shared with the corresponding author, who, on behalf of all of the co-authors, is requested to provide a detailed response. After the response is received and evaluated, additional review and involvement of experts (such as statistical reviewers) may be obtained. For cases in which it is unlikely that misconduct has occurred, clarifications, additional analyses, or both, published as Letters to the Editor, and often including a correction notice and correction to the published article, are sufficient.

Institutions are expected to conduct an appropriate and thorough investigation of allegations of scientific misconduct. Ultimately, authors, journals, and institutions have an important obligation to ensure the accuracy of the scientific record. By responding appropriately to concerns about scientific misconduct, and taking necessary actions based on evaluation of these concerns, such as corrections, retractions with replacement, and retractions, JKI will continue to fulfill the responsibilities of ensuring the validity and integrity of the scientific record.

Duties of Editors or Section Editors

Publication Decisions. The editors of JKI are responsible for deciding which of the articles submitted to the journal should be published. The validity of the work in question and its importance to researchers and readers must always drive such decisions. The editors may be guided by the policies of the journal’s editorial board and constrained by such legal requirements as shall then be in force regarding libel, copyright infringement, and plagiarism. The editors may confer with other editors or reviewers in making this decision.
Fair Play. An editor, at any time, evaluates manuscripts for their intellectual content without regard to the race, gender, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors.
Confidentiality. The editors and any editorial staff must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate.
Review of Manuscripts. Each manuscript must be initially evaluated for originality by the editors. Editors should organize and use peer reviews fairly and wisely, explain their peer-review processes in the information provided to authors, and indicate which parts of the journal are peer-reviewed. Editors should use appropriate peer reviewers for papers that are considered for publication by selecting people with sufficient expertise and avoiding those with conflicts of interest.
Disclosure and conflicts of interest. Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in an editor’s own research without the express written consent of the author. Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in an editor’s own research without the express written consent of the author.

Duties of Reviewers

Contribution to Editorial Decisions. Reviewers assist the editor in making editorial decisions and, through editorial communications with the author, may also assist the author in improving the paper.
Promptness. Any selected reviewer who feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript or knows that its prompt review will be impossible should notify the editor in order to be excused from the review process.
Confidentiality. Any manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents. They must not be shown to or discussed with others except as authorized by the editor.
Standards of Objectivity. Reviews should be conducted objectively. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate. Reviewers should express their views clearly with supporting arguments.
Acknowledgment of Sources. Reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors. Any statement relating to an observation, derivation, or argument that has been previously reported should be accompanied by the relevant citation. A reviewer should also call to the editor’s attention any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper of which they have personal knowledge.
Disclosure and Conflict of Interest. Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage. Reviewers should not consider manuscripts over which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the paper.
Any selected reviewer who feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript or knows that its prompt review will be impossible should notify the editor in order to be excused from the review process.
Any manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents. They must not be shown to or discussed with others except as authorized by the editor.
Standards of Objectivity. Reviews should be conducted objectively. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate. Reviewers should express their views clearly with supporting arguments.
Acknowledgment of Sources. Reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors. Any statement relating to an observation, derivation, or argument that has been previously reported should be accompanied by the relevant citation. A reviewer should also call to the editor’s attention any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper of which they have personal knowledge.
Disclosure and Conflict of Interest. Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage. Reviewers should not consider manuscripts over which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the paper.

Duties of Authors

Reporting standards. Authors of reports of original research should present an accurate account of the work performed as well as an objective discussion of its significance. Underlying data should be represented accurately in the paper. A paper should contain sufficient detail and references to permit others to replicate the work. Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behavior and are unacceptable.
Data Access, Retention, and Reproducibility. Authors are asked to provide the raw data in connection with a paper for editorial review, and should be prepared to provide public access to such data, if practicable, and should, in any event, be prepared to retain such data for a reasonable time after publication. The authors are responsible for data reproducibility.
Originality and Plagiarism. The authors should ensure that they have written entirely original works, and if the authors have used the work and/or words of others that this has been appropriately cited or quoted.
Multiple, Redundant, or Concurrent Publication. An author should not, in general, publish manuscripts describing essentially the same research in more than one journal or primary publication. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable.
Acknowledgment of Sources. Proper acknowledgment of the work of others must always be given. Authors should cite publications that have been influential in determining the nature of the reported work.
Authorship and Contributorship of the Article
- Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study. All those who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors.
- Where there are others who have participated in certain substantive aspects of the research project, they should be acknowledged or listed as contributors.
- The corresponding author should ensure that all appropriate co-authors and no inappropriate co-authors are listed in the paper and that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the paper and have agreed to its submission for publication.
Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest. All authors should disclose in their manuscript any financial or other substantive conflicts of interest that might be construed to influence the results or interpretation of the manuscript. All sources of financial support for the project should be disclosed. All authors should clarify anything that may cause conflicts of interest, such as work, research expenses, consultant expenses, and intellectual property, on the ICMJE disclosure form.
Fundamental Errors in Published Work. When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published work, it is the author’s obligation to promptly notify the journal editor or publisher and cooperate with the editor to retract or correct the paper.
Human and Animal Rights. The research being reported should have been conducted in an ethical and responsible manner and should comply with all relevant legislation. For manuscripts reporting medical studies involving human participants, authors must provide a statement identifying the ethics committee that approved the study, and the study conforms to recognized standards. Research involving animals should be conducted with the same rigor as research in humans. Authors should implement the 3Rs principles (Replacement, Reduction, Refinement). Authors must describe the details journals regarding study design and statistical analysis, experimental procedures, experimental animals, housing and husbandry. Authors must inform that ethical and legal approval was obtained prior to the start of the study, and to state the name of the body giving the approval. Authors should also state whether experiments were performed in accordance with relevant institutional and national guidelines and regulations.

Copy Editor

The Copy Editor is responsible for the validity of the grammar, conformity with the journal format, writing style, bibliography, and references.

Layout Editor

The Layout Editor is responsible for setting the appearance of the journal to be published, with regards to layout and image format settings, and article format conversion.

Complaints and Appeals

JKI have a clear procedure for handling complaints against the journal, Editorial Staff, the Editorial Board, or the publisher. Complaints will be clarified to a respected person with respect to the case of complaint. The scope of complaints includes anything related to the journal’s business process, i.e. editorial process, found citation manipulation, unfair editors/reviewers, peer-review manipulation, etc. Complaint cases will be processed according to the COPE guidelines. Complaint cases should be sent by email to jurnal.keperawatan@ui.ac.id.

Ethical Oversight

If the research work involves chemicals, humans, animals, or procedures or equipment that have any unusual hazards inherent in their use, the author must clearly identify these in the manuscript in order to obey the ethical conduct of research. If required, authors must provide legal ethical clearance from the relevant association or legal organization.

If the research involves confidential data and/or business/marketing practices, authors should clearly justify whether the data or information will be classified or not.

Intellectual Property (Copyright Policy)

Journal policy regarding intellectual property or copyright is declared here: http://jki.ui.ac.id/index.php/jki/about/submissions#copyrightNotice

Peer-Review Process Policy

Peer-review process/policy is declared here: http://jki.ui.ac.id/index.php/jki/about#peerReviewProcess

Post-Publication Discussions and Corrections

JKI accepts discussion of and corrections to published articles by the reader. The reader can contact the editor-in-chief by email to explain discussions and corrections. If accepted (by the editor-in-chief), the discussions and corrections will be published in the next issue as Letters to the Editor. The respective authors can answer discussions and corrections from readers by sending their replies to the editor-in-chief. Therefore, editors may publish such answers as Replies to Letters to the Editor.

Conflict of Interest Policy

General policy and sources of funding. Authors are required to disclose all sources of institutional, private, and corporate financial support for their study. Authors are also required to disclose any potential conflicts of interest. An author's conflict of interest, or information specifying the absence of conflicts of interest, and the sources of funding for the research will be published under a separate heading entitled "Conflict of Interest". See www.icmje.org for generally accepted definitions of conflicts of interest.

Submission by an editor or by an author whose relationship with the editor might create the perception of bias. If a submitting author and editor of the JKI have a relationship that may create a perception of bias, an alternative editor from another institute will be elected to oversee the manuscript. This editor will select the reviewers and have the final decision regarding the paper. The submitting editor will not have access to any information or correspondence relating to the submission that is not meant for the authors.

Potential conflict of interest for reviewers. The invitation letter to reviewers will include the following paragraph: 'If you know or think you know, the identity of the author, or if you feel there is any potential conflict of interest in your reviewing this paper (e.g. friendship or conflict/rivalry) please declare it immediately. By accepting this invitation, it is assumed there is no potential conflict of interest.' If a conflict of interest has been declared, standard policy declares that an alternate reviewer must be used however this is at the editors' discretion.

Confidentiality

Editors of the JKI treat all submitted manuscripts and communication with authors and reviewers as confidential. It is expected that authors will also treat communication with the journal as confidential. Correspondence with the journal, reviewers' reports, and other confidential material must not be posted on any website or otherwise publicized without prior permission from the editors, regardless of if the submission is published or not.

Disclaimer

Opinions expressed in articles and creative pieces published in Jurnal Keperawatan Indonesia are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Editorial Board or the publisher.

Publication Charges

Jurnal Keperawatan Indonesia (JKI) is an open access journal; it does not charge readers or institutes for access. For authors, there is no charge for manuscript submission. However, this journal charges an article publication fee for all manuscript types of IDR 2,000,000 (USD 180 for foreign). This payment should be completed before publication. Printed or reprinted materials are also supplied at a cost.

When the accepted manuscript has been proofread by the authors, the JKI office will send the invoice to the corresponding author and they need to complete the payment process before the article will be published.

Advertising Policy

Editorial materials will not be influenced by advertisements. Readers can criticize advertisements by writing to the editorial office. Advertisements will appear in the print or online version depending on the request. For all inquiries, contact the Jurnal Keperawatan Indonesia editorial office at Faculty of Nursing, Universitas Indonesia, L.E. 417 Room, E Building, Health Science Cluster of Universitas Indonesia, Depok 16424; phone: +62-851-7331-9979; email: jurnal.keperawatan@ui.ac.id

Publication Information

Jurnal Keperawatan Indonesia (P-ISSN 1410-4490; E-ISSN 2354-9203)

Abbreviated journal title: JKI, meaning Nursing Journal of Indonesia.

For the year 2014, Volume 17 is scheduled for online management and open-access publication.

JKI is published by Universitas Indonesia.

Commencement of publication: January 1997.

Article Withdrawal Policy

Authors can request a free withdrawal of their article not more than two business days after submission. If an author wants to withdraw his/her article from the peer-review process or publication process, then he/she must submit a formal letter, provided by our editorial office (Withdrawal Letter – Article), signed by the corresponding author and all the co-authors. The authors should mention their reasons for article withdrawal in the withdrawal letter. As a penalty for withdrawal, the authors must pay 50% of the publication fee per article to the publisher. This penalty is necessary to compensate for the time spent and the tremendous manpower involved in processing the article.

If the author wants to withdraw his/her article after it has been accepted for publication, the author must pay 100% of the publication fee. If the article has article has already undergone the processing and publication steps, the publication charges paid by the author will not be refunded. Withdrawal of the manuscript is only allowed after the withdrawal penalty has been fully paid to the publisher. If the author does not agree to pay the penalty, the author and his/her affiliation will be blacklisted for publication in this journal. Additionally, his/her previously published articles will be removed from our online system.

Email for requesting of withdrawal: jurnal.keperawatan@ui.ac.id

Journal History

JKI aims to promote excellence in nursing and health care through the dissemination of evidence-based, peer-reviewed clinical information and original research, the discussion of relevant and controversial professional issues, adherence to the standards of scientific integrity and excellence, and the promotion of nursing perspectives to the health-care community and the public. All JKI articles are required to have a sound scientific, evidential, theoretical, or philosophical base and to be critical, questioning, and scholarly in approach.

JKI was first published three times a year in 1997 with the cover design of the letter "JKI" and yellow typical of the color of the Universitas Indonesia. Then the cover design was changed by adding the titles of the articles in 1998 and published only twice a year. The frequency of publication was irregular due to limited input until 2000, then improved starting from 2001 until now. Then began in 2008, in the context of national re-accreditation and improving quality, the editors decided to issue 3 times a year (March, July, and November). In 2013, the journal cover had changed following the rules from the journal accreditation body in Indonesia and began using electronic journal management with Open Journal System (OJS). The journal is scheduled for online management and open access publications for the year 2014, Volume 17. Since then, the journal has managed and processed the publishing of articles using OJS. In 2017, the journal was registered in Crossref and had a unique DOI number. The journal management is supervised by the Directorate of Administration, Data and Management of Research and Innovation Products, Universitas Indonesia.

In 2018, JKI began publishing articles in Bahasa and English. Since 2020, JKI has published all articles in English. JKI collaborates with several Language Editing Services to ensure the quality of the language according to scientific publication standards in processing the publication of articles in English.

Case Reports

Criteria for Submission

Case report is a detailed description on rare diseases, novel occurrences, unusual indication or symptoms of a disease, unreported studies or unexpected events observed in a patient during the course of treatment. The study should highlight and report new cases in diagnosis of emerging diseases or specify variations and associations with new diseases. Case report should contain educational values and emphasize on the need of amendments to usual practices and approaches in the field. Case reports should comprise different findings with updated review on previous cases and investigation in the field. There should not be any preventive and therapeutic intrusions in the Case reports from the findings since they need more confirmed evidences.

Submitted case reports will be evaluated by the Editors and forwarded to peer review process unless it meets the scope of the journal. Submission criteria should meet suitable guidelines as specified in 'About the Journal'.

Submission Process

Manuscripts must be submitted as a soft copy in standard English (Either US English or British English but not as a mixture) only or Bahasa Indonesia. No hard copies will be accepted. Only one author must submit the manuscript and the corresponding author holds complete responsibility while the submission process and other communications during publication process.

Jurnal Keperawatan Indonesia accepts only electronic submissions to facilitate the rapid publication and ease citation. Authors are encouraged to submit the files as a batch or individually. The process is intermittent and can be continued later at the author’s convenience. Upon submission, a manuscript identity number will be generated and the author may use this in further correspondence for enquiries. Click Here to submit your manuscript.

With the interest of maintaining integrity and Publication Standards, the journal employs a plagiarism detection system to subject the manuscript for plagiarism check. By submitting your manuscript to this journal you agree to screen the manuscript prior to evaluation process for plagiarism check against formerly published works. If found in any case that the manuscript is infringed against publication policies, it can be either suspended or rejected at any stage of peer-review process. Hence the authors are closely suggested to declare transparency in any case of duplication and demonstrate significant development in the submitted manuscript than the original article with correct citations.

Please refer to our policies in Publication Ethics prior to your submission.

Cover letter

During submission process author will be asked to accompany a cover letter of approximately 500 words along with the manuscript. This should include manuscript title and a brief description on how relevant to the journal’s scope, contributions made to its respective field and how it adds value to the scientific literature. Also relate the study briefly to previous work stating how rare and unusual is the report. The cover letter should include name of the co-authors if any and full contact details of the corresponding author with office or institutional address, telephone, fax and email address. Corresponding author should clearly state the approval of co-authors for manuscript submission along with any competing interests. It is also firmly suggested to declare that work is purely original and not submitted or published elsewhere. Finally, if this submission is followed by the solicitation or invitation of an Editorial Board member please provide the details. Author can also include any additional information in the cover letter helpful to the Editor.

Informed Consent

A declaration should be provided for any report on experiments involving human subjects substantiating that informed consent was obtained from the subject(s) and/or guardian(s). In the cover letter corresponding author should clearly state that the informed consent was obtained from the subject(s) to publish there case.

Permissions

In accordance with ICMJE guidelines, when a previously published information or copyright material is used or reproduced in the submitted manuscript, it is the corresponding author’s responsibility to attain permission in written from the appropriate author or copyright holder and citing the original source correctly. It is recommended to submit the permission statement along with the manuscript to the Editorial Office to maintain transparency.

Photographs with Identifiable Patients

According to COPE guidelines, a patient’s physical identification must be masked in photographs, sonograms, CT scans, etc., whenever they are used and if a patient is identifiable, written permission must be obtained with informed consent from the patient or guardian to use the photograph. It is recommended to submit the permission statement along with the manuscript to the Editorial Office and clearly state in the manuscript that informed consent has been obtained.
Use generic drug name (or generic name followed by trade name in parentheses). Include manufacturer and their location (city and country) for drugs and devices.

Additional files of any type, such as animations, or original data files, can also be submitted as part of the publication.

File Format

The following word processor file formats are acceptable for the main manuscript document:

Microsoft Word (97,2003, 2007, 2010)
Rich text format (RTF)

For further assistance with the manuscript submission process and manuscript preparation, contact customer support team at editor.jki@gmail.com